Application Day
Poem
By Nehama Benmosche
You were
born in my heart
A long time ago
I’ll say
I thought
about you all the time
I imagined
you here
I imagined
all of your faces
And all
the ways you could have been
I imagined
you as a boy
and as a
girl
I imagined
you coming from me once
I imagined
you growing in a love of mine
I imagined
you in a hospital
In a hut
Outside
I imagined
you crying
And laughing
And smiling
And wondering
Your soul
connected to mine
Before we
had bodies
Before
there was a when
Or a where
Or a how
And I
always knew
That when
the day was right
When we
were ready
That it
would be time
Time for
that love
Born in my heart
Long ago
To grow
bigger than anything I could ever imagine.
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